Blockade that Israel has created on all humanitarian benefits cessation of fire in gas Walking sent the humanitarian groups to overwhelming. Organizations say they are trying to find out how to distribute reduced deliveries to the most vulnerable of 2 million enclave, and are afraid that the situation will only deteriorate.
Officials in the Central Town of Gazan Deir al-Bala stated on Wednesday-three days Israel to freeze Food, fuel, medicine and other materials that are part of the Palestinian territory, controlled by Hamas, the Israel also disconnected electricity for two plants that supply about 70% of the residents of the area with fresh water.
Freeze Aid has made minor progress of humanitarian workers who make you get rid of hunger in gas during the first ceasefire, which Israel and Hamas agreed in January. The first stage ended on March 1, and it is unclear what goes on when Israel pushes to the expansion of the phase, and Hamas requires the transition to the second phase.
“The decision of Israel to block the help of more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as Ramadan begins, is a reckless act of collective punishment, clearly banned in accordance with international humanitarian legislation,” the UK charity said. “Humanitarian aid is not a conversation for the use of pressure on the party, but the fundamental right of civilians who feel the urgent and life-threatening circumstances.”
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Israel says the blockade of assistance is aimed at Hamas pressure to take Offer to extend the first stage From the ceasefire, which, he said, was developed by the Trump administration. According to the proposal, Israel demanded from Hamas to convey half of the other 59 hostages that took place in the gas, which would become a significant change in terms originally agreed as part of the transaction laid down by the United States, Qatar and Egypt.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he was ready to strengthen the pressure on Hamas, and he would not exclude electricity shutdown for all gas under pressure.
Human rights and humanitarian, including Oxfamaccused Israel in months of using hunger as weapons of war in gas
The help group says Cutoff will have a “catastrophic result”
After more than 16 months of the war, the gas population is completely dependent on food and other help. Most residents are displaced from their homes, and many need asylum. Fuel is necessary to maintain hospitals, water pumps, bakeries and telecommunications – as well as trucks that provide assistance.
According to estimates, 70% Buildings in gas were destroyed Either damaged during the war, and there are no significant reserves of tents and other temporary shelters in the enclave, so that the Palestinians calculate during the freezing of assistance, according to Shaina Low, an advisor to the Norwegian refugee council. The help that came during the first stage of the ceasefire was “not enough to resolve all the needs,” she said.
Noticing that six babies died of hypothermia during the first stage of the ceasefire transaction, Low said: “If it was enough, we would not have babies who died from the exposition of the lack of shelter and warm clothing and proper medical equipment for their treatment.”
“We are trying to find out what we have? What would be the best use of our food?” Jonathan Kricks said, the head of the UNICEF communication. “We never sat on materials, so this is not the way a lot of distribution remains.”
Crickx predicted a “catastrophic result” when help freezes help.
During the first phase of ceasefire, humanitarian agencies rushed to supplies and quickly increased their capabilities. Assistance workers create more food kitchens, medical centers and water distribution points. According to the UN Humanitarian Coordinating Agency, they were able to double the amount of water obtained from the wells in accordance with the UN Humanitarian Coordinating Agency.
UN and related non -governmental organizations brought about 100,000 tents when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians tried to return to their homes To find them destroyed Either too damaged to live. But progress rested on the stream of help.
The International Migration Organization has 22,500 chambers sitting in Jordan's warehouses after the supply trucks returned its unsailed cargo after the ban on the entry of Israel, Charles Baker, the agency's regional coordinator.
The International Rescue Committee has 14,771 pounds of medicines and medical materials that are expected to enter gas, the delivery of which is now “very uncertain,” said Bob Kitchen, Vice -President of the Emergency and Humanities Department.
“It is necessary that the help of assistance immediately resumes. With the humanitarian needs Sky High, more access to help is required, no less,” the kitchen said.
Medical assistance for the Palestinian organization has stated that it has trucks that are stuck on the border that transport medicines, mattresses and auxiliary tools for people with disabilities. The organization has some medicines and materials in the gas reserve, the Map Tess Pope press said, but “we don't have stocks we can use during a long closing.”
The UN Humanitarian Service said on Tuesday that the prices for vegetables and flour rose in gas after Israel closed the border crossings.
Said Mohammed al-Dayry went through a noisy market in Gaza, immediately after a declared cut. The prices that just started to descend during the ceasefire jumped back when the sellers went at their reduced products.
“Traders carry us, traders are not merciful to us,” he said. “In the morning, the price of sugar was five shekels. Ask it now, the price has become 10 shekels.”
In the Central city of Gaza Deir al-Bala, 2.2 pounds of chicken, which sold $ 5.76 for $ 21, $ 50, or about 14 dollars. Culinary gas took off from $ 90 – $ 24.70 – 26 pounds before the equivalent of $ 406.24.
After October 7, 2023, Hamas's terrorist attack on Israel, which caused the war, was cut off by two weeks. This step was the main thing for the South African case Israel's accusation of genocide in gas In an international court. This happened when Israel launched the most intense phase of its aerial company on gas, one of the most aggressive in modern history.
With the fate of the ceasefire, the frozen fire will help again, the Palestinians are afraid of the repetition of this period.
“We are afraid that Netanyahu or Trump will start a war more serious than the previous war,” said Aber Obeida, a Palestinian woman from Northern Gaza.
“The crossing is a remedy by which people receive the basic needs of life, why they close them,” she asked. “To extend the truce, they must find any other solution.”
He contributed to this report.